<p>I have been put in charge of putting together a couple of games for my high school class reunion. One of the things we are going to do is a “Speed Catch Up” sort of thing patterned after speed dating and we wanted to give people questions that they can use as a jumping off point.</p>
<p>I have some basic questions about kids, jobs snorezzzzzzzzzzzzz but know I can count on you guys for some fun questions to add into the mix.</p>
<p>In addition if you have any other ideas for activities please share! Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Name That Tune.</p>
<p>Put together an iTunes playlist of 12 to 15 popular songs from your middle school/high school years that have fairly identifiable opening riffs/introductions. (Examples: “Cold As Ice” by Foreigner; “Freebird” by Lynrd Skynrd; etc.) On a (secret) answer sheet, number the songs, and write down the artist/group that recorded the song, and the year that the song reached its highest spot on the Billboard chart. (Use the internet to come up with the info.) </p>
<p>At the reunion, split people into groups of 8 to 12 people (by tables?) – or have men versus women. Remind them how screwy our memories have become (i.e. we forget how old we currently are, when our kids’ birthdays are, and where we left our glasses – but we can remember all the words to Steve Miller Band’s “The Joker.”) Give each team a sheet of paper and announce that you are going to play the first part of some songs, and for each song, each team needs to write down the name of the song, the artist/group, and the year the song hit its highest spot on the Billboard chart. Play each song, stopping the song just before the artist/group starts singing. Let each group confer quietly for a minute or two, and write down their guesses, then go on to the next song.</p>
<p>After you have gone through all the songs, go through them again, letting teams yell out their guesses after you have played each song. For each song, each team earns one point for correctly identifying the name of the song, two points for the artist, and three points for the year.</p>
<p>The best part of this game is people (classmates and spouses/partners of classmates) talking to each other trying to figure out the year. “We listened to that song all the time while we were scooping the loop the first summer I had my driver’s license.” “I hated that song, but my sophomore year boyfriend loved it – and that is the main reason I dumped him.” “Do you remember singing along to that song while riding the bus to basketball games?”</p>
<p>Howzabout…</p>
<p>When did you start wearing a toupe’?
Has your spouse gained a lot of weight as well?
Are you planning to sue the doctor who did that face lift?</p>
<p>:)
sorry, I couldn’t resist</p>
<p>Human Bingo…to follow “speed catch up”.</p>
<p>Fill out a bingo sheet with stuff, and people have to get it signed. Works better with adults (I guess kids too!) if you can offer prizes (most squares filled in, actual bingos, etc.)</p>
<p>Squares should be mix of easy and difficult. Easy questions make “mixing” a little more likely. So easy questions would be…“wearing a red shirt”, “has pierced ears” and other more difficult squares might be: “Lives on the east coast now”, “has 3 kids”, “drives a blue car” etc.</p>
<p>A little known fact about something that has happened since you graduated. No fair to answer if the person has been your best friend since then. I have used this with people who haven’t know each other long and you really find out fascinating information.</p>
<p>Each person writes their fact on a piece of paper and the moderator draws out of a basket. Group answers. Of course it depends on how large the reunion is…you can use it for the Bingo game described above if they give you the statement in advance.</p>
<p>One game I’ve used with groups of all ages that gets people to talk to each other is called “who am I?” - create stickers with names on them and put them on peoples’ backs. They have to ask yes or no questions to others to find out who they are. You can tailor the names to people your crowd should be familiar with - for example, “Madonna”, “Michael Jackson”, “Bill Clinton” for adults of a certain age; you can do tv characters, etc. Questions can be stuff like “Am I female”, “am I still living”, “am I a musician”, etc. but need to be answered by a yes or no.</p>
<p>The best thing about this game is it forces people to talk and interact with each other in a non-threatening way - you can offer prizes for the first few who guess their name correctly.</p>
<p>2 Lies and a Truth</p>
<p>Everyone at the table/group has a piece of paper and writes down 2 lies and a truth about themselves (things that may have happened since high sch.). Someone at the table reads the 2 lies and a truth written by each person and and others in the group try to guess which one is the Truth.</p>
<p>It’s most fun if the 2 lies are really something that could have possibly happened making it harder to guess which is the truth.</p>